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HuffPost Religion celebrates the Sikh American community and all of its diverse accomplishments. These eight people have made headlines for a wide variety of achievements, from athletic prowess to human rights leadership. Meet the future of America's Sikh community here:
Prabhjot Singh
Prabhjot Singh, a professor at Columbia University, sustained serious injuries after being subjected to a brutal hate crime attack. In a blog about the incident, his friend Simran Jeet Singh said that "Prabhjot has dedicated his life to serving the underserved," as Director of Systems Management at the

By Valarie Kaur and Jessica Jenkins
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It is a basic fact of the moral universe that children should not be sold for sexual exploitation. However, in America, girls and boys are regularly manipulated, coerced, and forced into sex for money. Most are trafficked from within the United States, not far-off foreign lands. Many are as young as eleven or twelve. And many are sold on prominent Web sites such as Backpage.com, owned by Village Voice Media.
This morning, an unexpected coalition of faith and moral leaders

My letter to the editor of the New York Times, defending the moral vision of the Millennial generation, was published today. I'm thrilled to be given this chance to speak out for all of us working so hard toward our vision of a more just world.
You can find the letter on the NYT website, and read it below.
Re “If It Feels Right

We are filing a major lawsuit tomorrow on behalf of clients who have endured racial profiling and police brutality in East Haven, CT. Our clients' story just made the New York Times:
Latino Immigrants to Sue a Connecticut Police Dept., Asserting Racial Bias
By SAM DOLNICK
When Yadanny García asked police officers in East Haven, Conn., why they were ordering him to the ground, they shocked him three times with a Taser gun, punched him and told him to “go back to your country.”
When José Luis Albaraccín was arrested after

What would happen if we felt empathy for those who we believe hold hateful views? Would we lose some integral part of our identity or find common humanity?
On every 9/11 anniversary, I find myself showing my film or giving a talk, but this year, in the spirit of the Common Ground Campaign, I spent the day listening instead of speaking. And what I found surprised me.
During the memorial at Ground Zero, as families gathered to remember and grieve, one man who lost his wife told the New

It is astounding what can happen in one week.
Last weekend, my friend Matt stopped by and started to vent his frustration and anger over the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy and the wave of anti-Muslim violence sweeping the country. I had been paralyzed over the issue for weeks, but hearing him began to thaw my frozen state: I wasn't alone in my bewilderment and sadness.
Matt and I began to reach out to classmates and friends across the country: many of us felt that our voices were not represented

Today, the New York Times covered our case against racial profiling in East Haven, CT. My team and I have been working on this case for more than a year as part of the Worker and Immigrant Rights Clinic at Yale Law School:
CONNECTICUT TOWN GRAPPLES WITH CLAIMS OF POLICE BIAS
Nina Bernstein
Since 2008, officials in East Haven, Conn., a working-class suburb with a long history of toxic relations between the police and minorities, have played down Latinos’ complaints of accelerating police harassment and brutality.
Local officials appeared unperturbed when

About Valarie

Valarie Kaur is a seasoned civil rights activist, award-winning filmmaker, lawyer, faith leader, and founder of The Revolutionary Love Project. She harnesses love as a shared practice to fight for social justice. She believes “the way we make change is just as important as the change we make.”

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